Emacs sort of
violates my UNIX-sense as it does many things instead of doing one thing
well.
I'd argue that's not a bad thing. When people tried to add macros to make or sendmail, you wound up with crazy like imake or the crazy sendfile.m4 stuff. Of course, sendmail and one thing aren't mates, but sometimes you need to do a few, well chosen things well to avoid the crazy that trying to misuse something will bring to the table.
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